Search Results: Titles starting with E from Chris Martin Modern First Editions

Doubleday and Doran 1944 (1st US). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. No d/w. A study in contrasts: St. Teresa of Avila and St Thérèse of Lisieux. Red cloth hardcover binding with grey lettering on spine. VG.

Virago 2015 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. First edition, first impression of this highly acclaimed novel that Waterstones chose as their 'Book of the Month' for August. I can add a Waterstone's Sample Chapter. Mint in Mint d/w.

Faber 1963 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first impression. Neat name at very top of f.f.e., and on foxing mark to page edge otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good d/w with a few tears and sl. edgewear.

Little Brown 2007 (1st US). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in a Fine d/w.

Harrap 1986 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Sl. browned edges otherwise a superb first edition, first impression. Seemingly scarce. Fine in a Fine d/w.

Henry Holt 2019 (1st US). 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. First edition, first printing of this well received first novel. Mint in Mint d/w.

Faber 1959 (1st UK). Hardcover. Very Good. The third Eliot play to be produced at the Edinburgh Festival before moving on to London, this one in 1958, directed by E. Martin Browne, and starring Anna Massey. First edition, first impression. Some small chips and tears to top edge and sellotaped mend to inside of spine o/w Near Fine in VG d/w.

Harper Collins 2003 (1st UK) . 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. First edition, first impression with a small card hand-signed by the author laid in. Mint in a Mint d/w.

No Binding. Fine. Eminent Britons First Day Cover (8.10.2009) by Signed by Blake. Quentin. Archer. Jeffrey Archer. Bannister. Roger. Blake. Peter. Bonnington. Chris

Bodley Head 1996 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. Shirley Hughes. Laid in is a full A4 handwritten letter from Hughes discussing the opening of a school library. Hughes pasted it on to card as she wanted to cover up the original letter on the verso on which she made a mistake. Fine in a Fine d/w.

Thomas Reed Publications 2002 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. As New. Published at £27.50. Mint in a Mint d/w.

Heinemann 1968 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Ex lib but in ok d/w except for rubbed patch bottom of rear where a label has been removed, and creasing to the spine. Good in VG d/w.

Grafton Books 1991 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression. Kurt Diemberger is an Austrian mountaineer who is the only living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres: of Broad Peak in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. Fine in a Fine d/w. Diemberger was one of only two survivors in the 1986 K2 Disaster. On 4 August 1986, Diemberger and Julie Tullis reached the summit of K2 very late in the day. Shortly after starting their descent, Tullis fell and dragged Diemberger down with her. They somehow stopped from going over the edge and spent the night above 8,000 metres. They managed to reach Camp IV the next day, where they were forced to share two tents with six other climbers after their tent had collapsed from hurricane force winds. Tullis died later that night, possibly from high altitude cerebral edema, and only one other climber, Austrian Willi Bauer, survived the descent with Diemberger. Both climbers suffered severe frostbite during the descent and… Read More

Cape 1997 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression. NOT price-clipped. Fine in a Near Fine d/w with sl. wear to base of spine.

Cape 1998 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. First edition, first impression. Some light foxing to top edge. Shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize. Fine in a Fine sunned spine d/w.

Dropmore Press 1946 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. British limited edition, first printing. No jacket as issued. Numbered 472 of 550. Large format. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine and gold decoration to front are near fine with minor pushing to corners.

Dropmore Press 1946 (1st UK) 0. Limited Edition. . Hardcover. Fine. Number 58 of a limited edition of 525 (550) copies printed on Barcham Green handmade paper. Blue linen with gilt emblem on centre front and gilt spine titling. Still in cardboad slipcase. Fine (no d/w as issued)

Collins 2017 (1st UK). 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression. Wonderful book about what makes the British, 'British'. Fine in a Fine d/w

Constable 1956 (1st UK). Hardcover. Fine. First edition, first impression. Lovely example in a d/w with slight wear to edges and small hole on spine. Fine in a Very Good d/w.

Hamish Hamilton 2000 (1st UK). Soft cover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof of the author's best known novel. Fine in publisher's 'pictorial wraps as issued. English Passengers' tells the story of a religious-scientific expedition that seeks to find the Garden of Eden in Tasmania, a land whose aboriginal culture had been experiencing brutal destruction at the hands of British settlers and convicts. The novel is told by more than 20 voices. It won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Australian Miles Franklin Award. In translation the book won France's Relay Prix d'Evasion. Interviewed in 2001, Kneale said that J. G. Farrell was a writer whom he particularly admired, as one who "wrote about the British Empire - and scathingly - back in the 1970s, when few in Britain wanted to think about the uglier parts of their country's past.